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1865–1939

MAID QUIET

William Butler Yeats

WHERE has Maid Quiet gone to, Nodding her russet hood? The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

O how could I be so calm When she rose up to depart? Now words that called up the lightning Are hurtling through my heart.

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